Series Representation in Mega Events

[10F] Belle'Anna

I did a bit of number crunching this morning to see the spread of crew from each series that have been featured in each of the Mega Events. It was surprisingly balanced, apart from a distinct under-representation from The Animated Series. I do think The Original Series and The Next Generation need a bit of a boost too.

Here is the breakdown.

DS9 = 18
VOY = 18
ENT = 14
DSC = 16
TNG = 12
TOS = 10
COM = 7
TAS = 1

Which series would you like to see represented in the next Mega Event?

Matt_Decker

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

I voted for TOS, but I'd also like to see a little more TNG. They're still my favorites.

[10F] Belle'Anna

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

Matt_Decker wrote: »

I voted for TOS, but I'd also like to see a little more TNG. They're still my favorites.

I voted TOS, though I love DS9 and Voyager I feel we haven't got enough Spock, Kirk, Scotty or McCoy. They're the real deal. I also wouldn't mind more TAS though I haven't seen much of it, I think it's really under-rated story wise.

Dirk Gunderson

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

I would certainly like to see at least one more TAS character (Stavos Keniclius seems to be the most popular), though I usually consider TAS to be “more TOS” than a truly separate series.

Legate Damar

I know we have another Phlox, but Enterprise Rocks!

My favorite is DS9 but I choose Enterprise, we need a real Captain Archer or a Captain Hernandez.

Commander Sinclair

Other (there's always one, and I'm special)

Torn between TOS & TNG. Actually, I wouldn't mind another Disco Mega in a month or so...

AND we will have to start thinking about Mega for Picard's new series when it comes out.

(HGH)Apollo

Those Comics Rock! More Mirror Please!

I really liked when we had mirror tng in. I went and read the mirror tng comics then did the events. It was a fun tie in. I would like to see more tie in with trek books and comics.

Banjo1012

I know we have another Phlox, but Enterprise Rocks!

No big surprise here but the reason I voted Enterprise is we need another 5* T’Pol. There’s like 6 five star Dax’s, Janeways, and Kira’s. Can we get another T’Pol?

Legate Damar

I know we have another Phlox, but Enterprise Rocks!

Banjo1012 wrote: »

No big surprise here but the reason I voted Enterprise is we need another 5* T’Pol. There’s like 6 five star Dax’s, Janeways, and Kira’s. Can we get another T’Pol?

You could add the T’Pol that was Lorian’ mom.

Travis S McClain

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

I'm always down for DS9 (wish someone would remember Jadzia isn't the only Dax), but I had to vote for TOS. I've always adored the aesthetics of that show--the costumes, the makeup, the sets, the props, all of it. I get a kick out of seeing characters from it whenever they pop up in events or the time portal that's different from my reaction to ones from the rest of the canon. Apollo, Gorn Captain, M-113 Creature...they're just wacky fun.

TheVerge04

The Animated Series is horribly under-represented in Mega Events!

Yep, I voted for the animated series...seeing as how I'm an old fart, and actually watched the series on "cartoon day" when I was a kid.

I'm still waiting for Timelines to release a version of Lt. M'Ress (for the Memory Alpha entry just head here: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/M%27Ress).

RennJaxo

You can never have enough Deep Space 9! More Dax! Dax Dax Dax!!!

I went DS9, because...always DS9...

However, I am a bit flummoxed by the lack of TOS and TOS movie crew in the game. Less Picards and Janeways, and more McCoys and Sulus, I say!

[TUFG] Captain Zlog

Ugh seriously, The Next Generation is the only Star Trek. Get Real.

TNG gave us the Borg, the Ferengi, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and the Maquis, more than a third of the factions!

They’re all great in their own way, but TNG defined my childhood. The writing, the ship, and most of all the crew - it was like a real family that you felt lucky to be a part of.



"On the starship Enterprise, no one is alone. No one." - Captain Picard

Cam Taliis

Ugh seriously, The Next Generation is the only Star Trek. Get Real.

Seasons 4-7 of DS9 will always be my favorite Trek. But TNG introduced me to Star Trek, and there's such a great list of characters and stories. So I voted TNG.

Seven of One

Other (there's always one, and I'm special)

Hey Belle'Anna

Great post 👌

I choose other because I truly can't decide (and I'm special)

The first ever Trek I watched was the Locutus episodes in English class at school, and so I ❤ TNG. #myfirsttruelove
I remember sitting with my sister's at the weekend to watch the 'big film' on TV (The Voyage Home) and so started my 💜 of Spock, Scotty, Bones and of course Kirk. My mum didn't watch any of the series, she's not a Trekkie at all.
Once I moved out, the only series I could get reruns on BBC2 was Voyager, so I watched that 💚 it, and it wasn't always shown in order, so I had to really concentrate. I also subscribed to the TNG magazine that mean I could collect all the DVDs of each episode. I used to hide them because my 'friends' would rip the pish out of me.
There is stayed, for many many years. I'd hide all my DVDs under the bed, nobody I knew really liked Trek, except my kids. My oldest son actually quite likes it and would often watch TNG DVDs with me. However for the most part I was a lonesome Trekster.

Fast forward to not-so-long ago, when I visited a friend. I got chatting to her son. I distinctly remember saying the sentence, Braai (not his real name) I didn't know you liked StarTrek! Fast forward a few months laters, we live together, he gets Netflix, he shows me Enterprise, im not sold at all, we start Discovery together, we shout inconsistencies at the tv while enjoying it anyway, we download STT, he introduces me to DS9 (which I finished last week) I cry at the end and we continue to live in domesticated Star Trek bliss for the rest of our lives.

And that's why I cannot choose, because most of the franchise's, and characters, have a special place in my heart, and they always will.

al103

Other (there's always one, and I'm special)

TOS. As long as it's NOT Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk.

*Nomad* {PoF}

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

TOS: How about Gary 7, Number 1, Gary Mitchell, NOMAD (had to put that in), Lord Garth, Commander Loskene of the Tholian Assembly, oh and while we're at it, a Romulan Warbird!

PompeyMagnus

I know we have another Phlox, but Enterprise Rocks!

[TUFG] Captain Zlog wrote: »

TNG gave us the Borg, the Ferengi, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and the Maquis, more than a third of the factions!

TNG may have introduced the Ferengi, Cardassians, Bajorans and Maquis, but DS9 breathed life into them.

I voted for Enterprise because that's the series I've been re-watching recently (it's not great, but I like it a lot more than Voyager), but I'd also be excited to see a TAS or TOS-themed mega event.

Travis S McClain

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

Nomad (FADM:Patterns of Force) wrote: »

TOS: How about Gary 7, Number 1, Gary Mitchell, NOMAD (had to put that in), Lord Garth, Commander Loskene of the Tholian Assembly, oh and while we're at it, a Romulan Warbird!

Nice group of TOS requests. Some of mine to add to it:

Arne Darvin & Barry Waddle ("The Trouble with Tribbles" & "Trials and Tribble-ations")
Balok ("The Corbomite Maneuver")
Bele & Lokai ("Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
Boss Oxmyx & Jojo Krakow ("A Little Piece of the Action")
Commodore Matt Decker ("The Doomsday Machine")
Marta (Harley Quinn to Lord Garth's Joker, I suppose?)
Roger Korby ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
White Rabbit ("Shore Leave")
Yeoman Martha Landon ("The Apple"--I'd be content with her being a 2*)

And I want "The Return of the Archons" represented somehow. I don't much care how. Guest characters, variants of the main cast, whatever. That episode has always fascinated me. In some respects, it's a perfectly routine TOS episode and in other respects, it's a complete anomaly. Today, we can use the shorthand of calling it The Purge episode, but that reference didn't used to exist and it was a lot harder to succinctly convey what it was about.

~peregrine~

Other (there's always one, and I'm special)

I would like to see a Mega Event with a theme that is explicitly not tied to one series and/or faction. Instead, perhaps, the theme could be a trait (e.g., Gambler) or skill (e.g., DIP), or maybe tied in to the real-world calendar (harvest festival, winter solstice, etc.). 🖖🏻

EDIT: I thought I remembered someone else proposing this, so I went looking & found this post from @BigDaddyTaylor, CPT. (SJ) , back in June 2018:

https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/6119/halloween-mega-event/p1
🎃

Cmdr Sinclair

I know we have another Phlox, but Enterprise Rocks!

More TOS, ENT, and TAS please not necessarily in that order, thanks. And less DSC if you could we don't need more dilution of Roddenberry's vision unless they intend to correct DSC, thanks again.

Travis S McClain

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

PompeyMagnus wrote: »

[TUFG] Captain Zlog wrote: »

TNG gave us the Borg, the Ferengi, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and the Maquis, more than a third of the factions!

TNG may have introduced the Ferengi, Cardassians, Bajorans and Maquis, but DS9 breathed life into them.

I voted for Enterprise because that's the series I've been re-watching recently (it's not great, but I like it a lot more than Voyager), but I'd also be excited to see a TAS or TOS-themed mega event.

DS9's handling of the Ferengi was a mixed bag for me. I loved the core group of Quark, Rom, Nog, Zek, Moogie, and Brunt. But there were more than a few Ferengi-focused episodes that just fell flat and I think a key reason is that DS9 focused exclusively on the merchant/civilian side of the Ferengi. I missed the militarized DaiMons from TNG. I felt they did the Ferengi a disservice by excluding them from that series altogether.

At first blanch, it might beg the question why Nog didn't just want to join the Ferengi military instead of going to the trouble of breaking new ground by joining Starfleet. But I think that decision has even more weight to it if we're reminded that the Ferengi military does exist and is an option. Nog's argument is that he and Rom are both just not like mainstream Ferengi. That's still a perfectly valid reason for not feeling there's a place for either of them as engineers of Ferengi ships. It would add a little more emphasis also to Nog's developed respect and appreciation for Federation values.

Plus, I would like to have seen some class conflicts between Quark the civilian merchant and a DaiMon like, say, DaiMon Bractor (from TNG "Peak Performance", played by Armin Shimerman). How do they differ in their understanding and application of the Rules of Acquisition? What do Ferengi like them think of one another? Is Quark a lesser Ferengi for not being in the crew of a Marauder? Is Bractor driven by misplaced aggression in the eyes of Quark?

[7TW] UnkieB

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

Still there are soooo many TOS crew I'd like to see...
Mirror Sulu
Lt. Marlena Moreau
Mudd's Women (maybe a group card, like Duras sisters)
Mirror Scotty
Gary Seven
Isis
Roberta
Jojo Krako
Samuel T. Cogley
Gorgan
Miri
Jahn
Elizabeth Dehner
Alexander (court jester, Plato's Stepchildren)
Commodore Matt Decker
Losira
Princess Eleen
Dr. Ann Mulhall
Marta
Lt. Boma
Bele
Lokai
Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
Dr. Tristan Adams
Balok
Doctor Helen Noel
Lazarus
Captain John Christopher
...not even close to a full list.

I'd guess TOS characters are a bit tougher for them as many acotors are either older and out of the acting world for decades for the most part, or have passed away and their heirs are the ones that need to be tracked down and dealt with for likeness issues.

We know that Charlie X and Harry Mudd have been no goes. Celia Lovsky too (TOS T'Pau) from what I've seen posted various places. They may have tried some others and gotten turned down too.

Dirk Gunderson

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

I see many great TOS character lists that are all somehow missing the great Doctor M’Benga.

(HGH)Apollo

Those Comics Rock! More Mirror Please!

I want the trek animals. Give me a Spot, give me a Porthos, give me a Picard lionfish even. Give me George and Gracie whales, give me The Doctor's holographic fish.

Ishmael Marx

Why oh Why can't we have more Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Kirk?

More TOS please! I get why people don't care for it, but it IS the original, without which none of the rest would exist. As with each series, it had it's share of cringe-worthy episodes (especially as they become more dated), but also plenty of timeless concepts.

Return of the Archons had some neat costumes and would make for great art (crosses fingers).
I'd like to see almost every single character in UnkieB's list.
We need a Laborer (or Movie-Goer) Kirk to pair up with Laborer Spock.
Flavius Maximus to go with Gladiator McCoy.
I'd like to see one (or more) of the Organians (before they became energy blobs).
Krako and Oxmyx to round out the Gangster set (more cool costumes).

HaBlack

The Animated Series is horribly under-represented in Mega Events!

I definitely want to see some more characters from TAS, as I already asked for. Beside Stavo there are plenty more
https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/1731/beside-arex-can-we-get-some-more-characters-from-tas

~peregrine~

Other (there's always one, and I'm special)

(HGH)Apollo wrote: »

I want the trek animals. Give me a Spot, give me a Porthos, give me a Picard lionfish even. Give me George and Gracie whales, give me The Doctor's holographic fish.

This could be a very fun Mega, especially with the stress-reducing qualities of pets! 🖖🏻

TP do better!! ~Colli~ (PoF)

Voyager is Best! I love Janeway and we haven't had a new card this year!

😉

JayBeezy

I know we have another Phlox, but Enterprise Rocks!

DS9 and Discovery are my personal favorites, but I chose Enterprise. While I would love to see more Animated Series cards, and I don't mind the comics characters, Enterprise is not feeling the love from DB. Archer only has one event under his belt, and he's never been the Legendary character in an event.

Capt. Pete Owen

Ugh seriously, The Next Generation is the only Star Trek. Get Real.

[10F] Belle'Anna wrote: »

I did a bit of number crunching this morning to see the spread of crew from each series that have been featured in each of the Mega Events.

I was bored as well so I counted up all crew overall in the game as shown in
https://stt.wiki/wiki/Crew/List

It states as of 12 August there are 564 crew in the vault but clearly that’s wrong as the vault indicates 585.
Obviously there’s a fudge factor.
But still get a rough idea of which series’s are being left behind when it comes to crew added & who are favoured.

ENT - 60
DIS - 35
TOS - 90
TAS - 3
TNG - 141
DS9 - 133
VOY - 94
N-C - 16